Random pairing in R

[MOT675]

If I have 2 datasets (in the example below names and car companies) how to I get R/Rstudio to randomly pair an item from each dataset?

I don't want Jack to always be selected with Kia, I want R to randomly pick a car company for Jack.

d <- data.frame( name = c("bob", "jack", "carl", "jill"),
site = c("honda", "kia", "ford", "toyota"))

sample_n(d, 2)

sample_n(d, 2)
name site
1 jack kia
2 jill toyota

[gueyenono]

Hi @MOT675 and welcome to the RStudio community

You could use a combination of the sample() and paste() functions:

set.seed(123)

name <- c("bob", "jack", "carl", "jill")
site <- c("honda", "kia", "ford", "toyota")
random_pairing <- paste(sample(name), sample(site), sep = "-")

random_pairing
[1] "carl-ford"  "jill-kia"   "bob-toyota" "jack-honda"

Note that I used a seed number just for my answer to be reproducible. If you keep rerunning the code; however, you will keep getting different results.

[MOT675]

Thank you for the feedback. The code you provided was very helpful in addressing my question.